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EMC to introduce converged networking strategy
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 17:47 IST
Bangalore:As a supplier of enterprise storage networking for more than a decade, EMC's, comprehensive private cloud strategy with its worldwide partner ecosystem, it is designed to help customers simplify this transition and gain the maximum benefits from their new converged network strategy.Standardizing and simplifying data center infrastructure is a critical component for customers. With this new converged networks portfolio, EMC can help customers address key data center challenges, such as network sprawl, complexity and spiraling power and cooling costs.
Over the next several months, EMC plans to start an expanded portfolio of converged networking services for Ethernet environments, including network assessment, planning, design and implementation services, supporting a range of protocols.New Ethernet competencies for EMC Technology Solutions and Services personnel worldwide to better educate customers and deliver Ethernet-based networking and storage solutions.A full range of Brocade 10 Giga bit Ethernet switch products. A data center system solution offering consisting of select Cisco Nexus 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch products.
Ken Cheng, Vice President of IP products division at Brocade,said,"Virtualization and cloud computing are driving high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch adoption. This expanded agreement not only signifies the evolution of our long-term,productive partnership with EMC to meet this demand,but it allows our joint customers to reap the benefits of decades of combined experience in Ethernet, storage,and converged networking technologies."
EMC has evolved tools to help customers migrate their existing storage network infrastructure to a converged network, as well as size their environments to support replication and backup activities.These methods allow customers to architect a dynamic data center, respond to constantly changing business priorities, support advanced network-based technologies, like VMware VMotion and Microsoft Live Migration.
The joint expertise between Cisco and EMC will help our customers to streamline their migration toward high-performance virtualization, data center convergence and private cloud infrastructures, while simplifying their operations, reducing costs and increasing business agility
Charles King, Principal Analyst of Pund-IT, said, "With enterprises leveraging virtualization more and more in their data centers, a new breed of robust network connectivity is becoming necessary. EMC's proven expertise and capabilities in delivering strategy, planning, implementation and management of end-to-end solutions for virtualized environments will help new and existing customers successfully move to the cloud."
